Category Archives: Silicon Void

Hi everybody – we just launched on Kickstarter! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorshrugs/silicon-void I’ll be posting updates on the Kickstarter page itself throughout the month with more tidbits about the design, story, art and music of the game. If you’re excited about Silicon Void, please spread this link far and wide! This is a niche… Read more »

Silicon Void v0.2.0 is now available at https://doctorshrugs.itch.io/siliconvoid! In addition to a wide variety of bug fixes and usability improvements, this expanded demo adds lots of new content: Dive into the galactic communications network Explore the City of Intersection, a failed Senescent colony Meet the hive minds who vie for… Read more »

Over the last week or two I’ve been playing through Diablo 3 again with a Necromancer, and I had the exact same experience that I did when I first played it five years ago: within an hour I had the same skill loadout that I would use for the rest… Read more »

Last time, I described how I designed Silicon Void‘s turn clock in response to what I perceive to be flaws in Chrono Cross‘ combat mechanics. In this post we finally leave Chrono Cross behind and look at a mechanic that has an entirely different inspiration. Besides the upcoming enemy turn… Read more »

Since the main selling point of Silicon Void (play the demo!) is the combat system, I wanted to spend some time digging into the rationale behind its mechanics. Two general principles guide my thinking about turn-based combat: Every action you take should have multiple consequences, allowing novel scenarios to emerge from a limited… Read more »

Hello friends – just a quick update to let you know that you can play the first public build of Silicon Void by going over to https://doctorshrugs.itch.io/siliconvoid! I’m excited to hear what you think about the game and in particular the combat system. As I note on the itch page, I… Read more »

Today I announced the indie game I’ve been working on and referencing vaguely on this blog for the past year! It’s called Silicon Void, and you can watch the announcement trailer right here: As you can see, it’s aesthetically quite different from Chrono Cross, but hopefully you recognize the mechanical similarities… Read more »

Silicon Void – Links

I am Chris Doucette, a vidjagame programmer with a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology. I make a point of telling people that I have a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology, because that is the only utility I will ever get out of having a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology.

As of summer 2016 I'm an independent developer finally putting my money where my mouth is and making the crunchiest turn-based RPG I can imagine. It's called Silicon Void and you can follow its development here and at the links above.